A little more than kin, and less than kind | Hamlet, disgust at claudius being in his family 1.2 |
O that this too too solid flesh would melt | Hamlet, very depressed 1.2 |
How weary stale flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world | Hamlet’s negative opinion of the world 1.2 |
I do not set my life at a pins fee | Hamlet showing how little he values himself 1.4 |
Oh villain villain smiling damned villain | Hamlet says this about Claudius that suggests his deceit 1.5 |
There are more things in heaven and earth that can be dreamt of in your philosophy | Hamlet, making a point to horatio 1.5 |
To put an antic disposition on | Hamlet, his plan to get away with his behaviour 1.5 |
What a piece of work is a man | Hamlets opinions on makind 2.1 |
Man delights not me. No nor woman either | Hamlets view on people 2.1 |
What a piece of work is a man | Hamlets opinions on makind 2.1 |
A dream is but itself a shadow | Hamlet on dreams 2.2 |
To be honest as in this world goes is to be one man picked out of 10,00″ | Hamlet on honesty 2.2 |
Man delights not me. No nor woman either | Hamlets view on people 2.1 |
The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals, yet to me what is this quintessence of dust | Hamlet about his view of the beauty of the world 2.1 |
A dream is but itself a shadow | Hamlet on dreams 2.2 |
To be honest as in this world goes is to be one man picked out of 10,00″ | Hamlet on honesty 2.2 |
I am mad north north west when the wind i southerly, i know a hawk from a hand saw | Hamlet on his madness 2.2 |
O what a rogue and peasant slave am i | Hamlet on himself 2.2 |
The plays the thing wherein ill catch the conscience of the king | Hamlet summing up his plan against claudius 2.2 |
To be or not to be that is the question | Hamlet debating suicide3.1 |
The undiscovered country from whose born no traveller returns | Hamlet talking about the nature of death 3.1 |
We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us | Hamlet trying to give Ophelia advice 3.1 |
They are coming to the play, i must be idle | Hamlet, showing that his madness is put on 3.2 |
Lady shall i lie in your lap | Hamlet being crude to ophelia 3.2 |
You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops | Hamlet getting angry at R and G 3.2 |
Now could i drink hot blood | Hamlet showing his huge anger 3.2 |
I will speak daggers to her but use none | Hamlet talking before he goes to gertrude 3.2 |
His soul may be as damned and black as hell whereto he goes | Hamlet on claudius 3.3 |
Almost as bad, good mother as kill a king and marry with his brother | Hamlet to Gertrude on the whole situation in the court 3.4 |
This was your husband, look you know what follows | Hamlet showing how gertrude had downgraded 3.4 |
Have you eyes | Hamlet questioning his mother 3.4 |
A king of shreds and patches | Hamlet insulting claudius 3.4 |
Let the bloat king tempt you to bed | Hamlet giving Gertrude instruction 3.4 |
I essentially am not in madness but mad in craft | Hamlet telling gertrude about his madness 3.4 |
When he needs what you have gleaned it is but squeezing you | Hamlet talking about claudius to r and g 4.2 |
A king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar | Hamlet making a point about the cycle of life 4.3 |
Fortinbras fights over land that “hath in it no profit but the name” and hamlet realises he has something worth fighting for | What causes hamlet to think his thoughts should be bloody 4.4 |
How all occasions do inform against me and spur my dull revenge | Hamlet about his revenge 4.4 |
From this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth | Hamlet on his thoughts regarding revenge 4.4 |
Alas poor yorick, i knew him Horatio | Hamlet on yorick 5.1 |
Let her paint an inch think, to this favour she must come | Hamlet on women and death 5.1 |
Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum | Hamlet on his love for ophelia 5.1 |
He hath killed my king and whored thy mother | Hamlet about claudius 5.2 |
Give me your pardon sir, ive done you wrong | Hamlet makes peace with laertes 5.2 |
His madness is poor hamlets enemy | Hamlet 3rd person to laertes 5.2 |
Your skill shall shine like a star i’th darkest night | Hamlet on laertes skill 5.2 |
Insestuous , murderous damned dane, drink off this potion | Hamlet to claudius in the final scene 5.2 |
Let it be horatio, i am dead | Hamlet to horatio about his death 5.2 |
He hath my dying voice | Hamlet on fortinbras 5.2 |
With wisest sorrow think on him together with remembrance of ourselves | Claudius on the death of old hamlet and on denmarks future 1.2 |
Tis unmanly grief it shows a will most incorrect to heaven | Claudius on hamlets depressed state 1.2 |
As of a man faithful and honourable | Claudius on polonius 2.2 |
Get from him why he puts on this confusion | Claudius inquiring about hamlets madness 3.1 |
How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience | Claudius on conscience 3.1 |
Madness in great one must not unwatched go | Claudius on madness 3.1 |
Give me some light away | Claudius gives his guilt away whilst watching the play 3.2 |
Oh my offence is rank it smells to heaven | Claudius on his actions 3.3 |
Yet what can it when one cannot repent | Claudius on repentence 3.3 |
O he is mad laertes | Claudius on hamlets madness 5.1 |
Hes loved of the distracted multitude | Claudius on hamlet and the public 4.3 |
For like the hectic in my blood he rages | Claudius comparing hamlet to something negative 4.3 |
When sorrows come they come not in single spies but in battalions | Claudius on sorrows 4.5 |
I am guiltless of your fathers death | Claudius to laertes about ps death 4.5 |
We shall jointly labour with your soul to give it due content | Claudius on forming a plan with laertes 4.5 |
Revenge should have no bounds | Claudius on revenge 4.7 |
O he is mad laertes | Claudius on hamlets madness 5.1 |
You speak like a green girl | Polonius on ophelias 1.3 |
This is the very ecstasy of love | Polonius on hamlets madness 2.1 |
By indirections find directions out | Polonius to reynaldo 2.1 |
What do you think of me | Polonius shows his need for acceptance 2.2 |
What do you think of me | Polonius shows his need for acceptance 2.2 |
By indirections find directions out | Polonius to reynaldo 2.1 |
I will be brief | Polonius contradicting his character 2.2 |
Brevity is the soul of wit | Polonius use of irony 2.2 |
I will use no art | Polonius saying he will not add detail 2.2 |
Though this be madness yet there is method int | Polonius on if hamlets madness is genuine 2.2 |
I do believe the origin and commencement of this belief sprang from neglected love | Polonius on origins of hamlets madness 3.1 |
It is back’d like a weaselVery like a whale | Polonius is being shown up by hamlet 3.2 |
Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with | Polonius to gertrude 3.4 |
Foolish prating knave | Hamlet on polonius 3.4 |
And recks not his own rede | Ophelia on hipocrisy 1.3 |
I do not know my lord what i should think | Ophelia showing that she doesnt have her own opinions 1.3 |
Importun’d me with love in honourable fashion | Ophelia on hamlets love towards her 1.3 |
Pale as his shirt, knees knocking each other | Ophelia on her encounter with hamlet 2.1 |
As you did command i did repel his letters | Ophelia showing that she does what she is told 2.1 |
With them words of such sweet breath composed | Ophelia on hamlets words to her 3.1 |
Could beauty my lord have better commerce than with honesty | Ophelia on beauty and honesty 3.1 |
I think nothing my lord | Ophelia showing she doesnt have her own thoughts 3.2 |
He is dead and gone lady he is dead and gone | Ophelia sings this in madness 4.5 |
Cast thy nighted colour off | Gertrude on hamlets melancholy state 1.2 |
More matter with less art | gertrude on polonius’ waffling 2.1 |
Too much changed son | Gertrude on hamlets mental state 2.2 |
I do wish your beauties be the happy cause of hamlets wildness | Gertrude on ophelias affect on hamlet 3.1 |
O what a rash and bloody deed is this | Gertrude on hamlet killing p 3.4 |
These words like daggers enter in my ears | Gertrude on hamlets harsh words 3.4 |
This is the very coinage of your brain | Gertrude 3.4 |
O gentle som, upon the heat and flame of thy distemper sprinkle cool patience | Gertrude on hamlets temper 3.4 |
Mad as the sea and wind when both contend | Gertrude on hamlets madness 4.1 |
How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! O this is counter you false danish dogs | Gertrude 4.5 |
I drink my lord, i pray you pardon me | Gertrude perhaps shows she is aware of claudius’ plot in the final scene |
Tush tush twill not appear | Horatio being adamant in his views on the ghost 1.1 |
I might not this believe without the sensible and true avouch of mine own eyes | Horatio on seeing and believing 1.1 |
What if it tempt you toward the flood my lord | Horatio on the danger posed by the ghost 1.4 |
These are wild and whirling words my lord | Horatio on hamlets speech1.5 |
I did very well note him | Horatio on claudius’ guilt 3.2 |
Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so | Horatio on overthinking 5.1 |
I am justly killed with mine own treachery | Laertes on his death 5.2 |
If your mind dislike anything, obey it | Horatio on intuition 5.2 |
Now cracks a noble heart, good night sweet prince | Horatio on hamlets death 5.2 |
A violet in the youth of primy nature | Laertes on ophelias naive ways 1.3 |
He himself is subject to his birth | Laertes on hamlet being a prince 1.3 |
O thou vile king give me thy father | Laertes says this in anger to claudius 4.5 |
Ill be revenged most throughly for my father | Laertes on revenge, contrasts to hamlet 4.5 |
To cut his throat i th church | Laertes shows anger towards hamlet 4.7 |
I forbid my tears | Laertes after finding out ophelia has drowned 4.7 |
The devil take thy soul | Laertes when hamlet arrives at ophelias funeral 5.1 |
I do receive your offer like love, i will not wrong it | Laertes making peace with hamlet 5.2 |
And yet it is almost against my conscience | Laertes deeling guilty about his plan to kill hamlet 5.2 |
The foul practice has turned itself on me | Laertes on karma 5.2 |
Exchange forgiveness with me noble hamlet | Laertes making peace with hamlet 5.2 |
I am justly killed with mine own treachery | Laertes on his death 5.2 |
We both obey and here give up ourselves in the full bent | Guildenstern on obedience |
He does confess he feels himself distracted | Rosencrantz on hamlets state of mind |
Good lord put your discourse into some frame | Guildenstern on hamlets discourse |
Take me for a sponge my lord | Rosencrantz on hamlets insult |
Soaks up the kings countenance | Hamlet on r and g being sponges |
A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear | Hamlet on r and g being stupid |
Kenneth burke | Make it seem that his greatest plays unfolded themselves like a destiny rather than a technical experts scheming |
Alexander pope | Every single character in shakespeare is as much of an individual as those in life itself |
Dryden | When he describes anything you more than see it you feel it |
Alexander pope | Every single character in shakespeare is as much of an individual as those in life itself |
Dryden | When he describes anything you more than see it you feel it |
David tenant hamlet director | Gregory doran |
Mel gibson hamlet director | Franco zeffirelli |
Hamlet violent to ophelia in argument scene | Branagh |
Seemingly virtuous queen | What does the ghost call Gertrude that hints that she is deceitful in 1.5 |
She married o most wicked speed to post | Hamlet on gertrudes hasty marriage 1.2 |
Frailty thy name is woman | Hamlets views on gertrude 1.2 |
Of unimproved mettle, hot and full | Horatio on fortinbras 2.1 |
The serpent that did sting thy fathers life now wears his crown | Ghost on who killed him 1.5 |
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November 17, 2019